General News Archive - September 04, 2005

By Mark Egan NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - New Orleans looked all but empty on
Sunday after the final evacuation of battered survivors of
Hurricane Katrina, while top Bush administration officials,
stung by anger at their relief efforts, were fanning out across
the afflicted region.

By Jackie Frank WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The death of Chief Justice William
Rehnquist creates a rare double opening on the U.S. Supreme
Court, giving President George W. Bush the chance to make a
significant mark on the federal judiciary.

By Mike Collett-White VENICE (Reuters) - Terry Gilliam's "The Brothers Grimm"
brought fairy tale magic to the Venice Film Festival on Sunday,
with the director hoping for a happy ending in Europe after the
movie failed to impress in America.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and
several associates will go on trial for mass killing on October
19, government spokesman Laith Kubba said on Sunday, confirming
earlier unofficial comments by government sources.

By Mark Egan NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Top officials from the Bush
administration, smarting from criticism their slow response
compounded the suffering from Hurricane Katrina, were touring
the devastation on Sunday as storm survivors finished
evacuating New Orleans.

AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - Hundreds of grieving Indian
Muslims on Sunday attended the funeral of an Indian-born U.S.
soldier killed in a rocket attack in Iraq last month. The body of 23-year-old Hatim Kathiria was flown to Dahod
in the western state of Gujarat on Sunday, accompanied by U.S.

By Laure Bretton PARIS (Reuters) - A fire killed 14 people in a suspected
arson attack in a high-rise apartment block in Paris on Sunday,
the third major blaze in the French capital in just over a
week, police said.